Although not by design, I have discovered that I haveconstructed three of the four radios featured in the 1944edition of the ARRL handbook .. and, I’m constructingthe fourth one right now, so I’ll wind up with the completeset :-)

Each design has it’s own pro’s & con’s & methods of receiving signals, so it’s an exciting learning experience.

"I do not know why my front panel didn't have the enough "room" for the various band designations."

Might be that the original used vernier gear reduction. They were readily available then, often incorporated right in the tuning caps. Many touted a jeweled feel that was superb.

I've got an original Spider Coil receiver, found at a thrift shop in PA, from the era, black wrinkle finish and all, never fired it up, just cleaned it up and put it into the glass case for display. The workmanship of some long gone and unknown craftsman is astounding on this one. Three separate homebrewed plugin Spider Coils were still with it.

Once put together a superegen from an old article, it was amazing in operation actually, was very surprised at the sensitivity and the ability to tune CW and even Sideband in on the darn thing. Touchy regen of course, but the fact that it did it was an eyebrow raiser for me at the time.

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